Archaeologists remain baffled by a surprising, seemingly ahistorical find located deep in the Canadian wilderness. But after ...

Any runic inscription is rare. Someone put all this effort into this particular text and you wonder why.” It was all this ...

Elder Futhark Runes – These ancient alphabetic symbols ... Theban Script – Often called the “Witches’ Alphabet,” this script is used for encoding spells and keeping magickal records ...

Runes are the characters of the alphabet used by the Vikings and other Germanic peoples from about the second to the 15th centuries A.D. Some runes vaguely resemble letters in our own alphabet ...

Two rare artifacts inscribed with ancient letters, or runes, could be the key to a mysterious era of Viking history when they suddenly abandoned their old alphabet and transitioned to a new one.

Perhaps no one has ever been as excited to see a comb as Danish archaeologist Søren Sindbæk. He and a team of archaeologists from Aarhus University recently unearthed one at a historic Viking ...

Runic alphabets differed by Germanic regions and periods. Elder Futhark, for example, was prevalent among Northwest Germanic people during the Migration Period (300–568 C.E.), while Younger ...

The inscriptions were discovered to be in a runic script that has only been associated with Germanic tribes until now. How an alien alphabet came to be adopted by these early Slavs poses some ...

runes are stones inscribed with runic letters, the oldest alphabet known in Scandinavia. The discovery, which could date from the time of Jesus Christ, is "a dream for runologists", who study ...